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Johanna Zemva1, Christoph Andreas Fink1, Thomas Henry Fleming2

  • 1Department for Internal Medicine I and Clinical Chemistry, Heidelberg University Hospital, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany; Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), DKFZ-ZMBH Alliance, Im Neuenheimer Feld 282, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.

Redox Biology
|August 22, 2017
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Glucose metabolismHeat shock proteinsMethylglyoxalNutrient signallingProtein quality control systemReactive metabolites

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